As am I, but after the next round of coma and work outsider nonsense, there will be another glorious period of 48 TimeFrames when no-one can stop me devoting my full time to the worship of Time.

Lord Randall, Creator of the One True Comic wrote:Wait for it.

Helper wrote:The great thing about this needle-pulled thing be that it tin turn ænig everyday situation into an hilarious nightmare:Helper goeth to Starbux:"ic'd like an coffee, please. Hold the baby!""hwæt? eow be, like, weird.""Y-Y-You too.FULL STOPFULL STOP"

dreiarmumig wrote:The comic really has become incredibly boring. At this point I only check about twice a day and still nothing much has changed. Ugh, can it please be over? I know I'm gonna look it up every day even if it continues until forever, and I don't want to do that!

In complete honesty, (no false intensity here) I have come to quite enjoy reading the conversations and meandering discussion which accompany the comic, not to mention the comic itself (which, while slow, provides and insightful backdrop to the day-to-day routine which I follow on the Outside, between reading this thread)

Indeed, there are two experiences relevent to the One True Comic. The first is The Comic itself, the second is The Thread. Neither alone can tell the complete story. Although information passes only from the former to the latter1, each is integral to the other.

1You can try it if you like but you'd far better not'a.

There are at least three. Running through the sequence in The Book of Aubron (forwards or backwards) is an experience in itself.

astrotter wrote:It is not particularly clear to me at this time that we are not overanalyzing this...

Randalspeed thunk, iskinner, and other blitzers! Notes from the before-was improve the after-when. Some Ways to Time

higgs-boson wrote:Is Cueball playing for time or just that bad on Actual Sized Sand Castle Engineering?

Having to undo and rebuild some work is ... ehr ... not unheared of. But Cueboll and Megan had a plan. At least I suspected ...

<snip>

Is there a Plan (with capital "P")?

Oh, crap. Cueball & Megan are toasters?!?

"The sandcastles were created by man, and woman, and they're both stickfigures, and they have a plan.. but it's not a particularly good plan..as revealed by a direct to dvd pseudo prequel.. about sandcastles."

/at least I'm not a bowl of petunias/\\current member of the post-pre-hat-queue-mob-mob-mob\\

buffygirl wrote:Ok, so I think that the final culmination of The One True Comic (if there is one) MUST involve something specifically about either Time or Waiting. Also, I think we will have another zoom-out, and then maybe another few after that. Eventually it will be the earth, then the solar system, the galaxy, the universe.

The castle-building is a metaphor for human existence in general, and the eventual zooming out will put both Humanity and Time in perspective -- maybe something going all the way back to the Big Bong Theory.

Side note: My hats are not evil. Not a one. And if there ever WAS an evil one, it was Borgias-2, and it was ... ahem, BURNED by mean horrible people.

And I TOLD you, I am no longer possessed, nor am I crazy, nor am I evil. so THBBBT!

Ermmmm .... except for the sandwich thing. That was unexpected.

Signed,buffygirl, She who Rises From The Flames Like A Phoenix To Continue With Her Pursuit of Hat Perfection.

Arch-Cardinal, if you're referring to my Faith FAQ, I only meant that you have been possessed by the Hat, not that you're still possessed (neither I'm saying you aren't)

EDIT: EDIT2: ninja'd... maybe... I don't really know since we both posted it at the same outsider time

Hey, posting a Newpix as an edit to a pre-DONG post is cheating

That's nothing, I actually posted that exact panel a good week before Randell even drew it! (see p.63 for reference )

/at least I'm not a bowl of petunias/\\current member of the post-pre-hat-queue-mob-mob-mob\\

It's even got the tiny little flag on the right one! I wonder what that flag's made of?

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

dreiarmumig wrote:The comic really has become incredibly boring. At this point I only check about twice a day and still nothing much has changed. Ugh, can it please be over? I know I'm gonna look it up every day even if it continues until forever, and I don't want to do that!

In complete honesty, (no false intensity here) I have come to quite enjoy reading the conversations and meandering discussion which accompany the comic, not to mention the comic itself (which, while slow, provides and insightful backdrop to the day-to-day routine which I follow on the Outside, between reading this thread)

Indeed, there are two experiences relevent to the One True Comic. The first is The Comic itself, the second is The Thread. Neither alone can tell the complete story. Although information passes only from the former to the latter1, each is integral to the other.

1You can try it if you like but you'd far better not'a.

There are at least three. Running through the sequence in The Book of Aubron (forwards or backwards) is an experience in itself.

I'm glad someone mentioned this. It's become another addition to my round-of-daily-internetting. During the beginning days I needed an internetervention because of this entire triple-experience. I don't know about you, but every day I open the Book of Aubron, I quickly hit the back arrow a few times to see the LPs I missed... then un-pause and start it from the beginning, hitting the 'faster' button as quickly as I can to watch the whole sequence for the 100th time - new frames included.

... then I get irritated that this damn Mound continues, and immediately head for the One True Thread. Are we all sharing identical Time-experience? Perhaps we all need interneterventions Timerventions.

since it was my first post, it was well-buried before being approved by a moderator -- & since this is only my second post, i can't link to it or quote properly.

but!

i repeat it here for a chance of being seen.

> bigcrag92 wrote:>> not at all. we have two cardinals. if someone creates a user account with ubscdt then they will be automatically be a cardinal. its an incentive to encourage lurkers to register...

Note that I don't see an itty bitty Megan on the castle next to full-size Cueball, so the model is as yet imperfect.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

Been lurking since page three or so, through the madness and all. Almost wrote something like "NFW I'm reading eighty-seven pages" back when that was all there were.

Anyway, I like the self-reference on the middle tower. First thing that's happened (to the actual True Comic, or whatever you call it) in three days, it seems like.

The religion stuff has been interesting to watch, though, and I feel like that was/is more of the point of the Comic in the first place.

I wonder if it'll go to one Newpix per two Outside hours this next week, and then three or four hours the week after that. I'm sure there's been plenty of speculation on that point in some of the 200+ pages of this needle-pulled thing I'll never get to, though.

ubscdt wrote:since it was my first post, it was well-buried before being approved by a moderator -- & since this is only my second post, i can't link to it or quote properly.

but!

i repeat it here for a chance of being seen.

> bigcrag92 wrote:>> not at all. we have two cardinals. if someone creates a user account with ubscdt then they will be automatically be a cardinal. its an incentive to encourage lurkers to register...

> i've always wanted to be a religious figure.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. I presume that we should be nominating you for Cardinal?

Though I'm not entirely sure exactly how that process works... doesn't a Cardinal need to do that? (As an aside, would I qualify for Cardinalhood? Is that even something I really want?)

josiahstevenson wrote:Been lurking since page three or so, through the madness and all. Almost wrote something like "NFW I'm reading eighty-seven pages" back when that was all there were.

Anyway, I like the self-reference on the middle tower. First thing that's happened (to the actual True Comic, or whatever you call it) in three days, it seems like.

The religion stuff has been interesting to watch, though, and I feel like that was/is more of the point of the Comic in the first place.

I wonder if it'll go to one Newpix per two Outside hours this next week, and then three or four hours the week after that. I'm sure there's been plenty of speculation on that point in some of the 200+ pages of this needle-pulled thing I'll never get to, though.

Surely you could get through the full 239 NewPages of the One True needle-pulled thing, if you were truly devoted enough.

Most of it was at least moderately amusing... though I think much of that may have be-did lost in the madness, somewhere.

ubscdt wrote:since it was my first post, it was well-buried before being approved by a moderator -- & since this is only my second post, i can't link to it or quote properly.

but!

i repeat it here for a chance of being seen.

> bigcrag92 wrote:>> not at all. we have two cardinals. if someone creates a user account with ubscdt then they will be automatically be a cardinal. its an incentive to encourage lurkers to register...

> i've always wanted to be a religious figure.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. I presume that we should be nominating you for Cardinal?

Though I'm not entirely sure exactly how that process works... doesn't a Cardinal need to do that? (As an aside, would I qualify for Cardinalhood? Is that even something I really want?)

bigcrag92 said that ubscdt would automatically become a cardinal, but doesn't that need Papal confirmation?

Sir Tristram, Guardian of the Time Cats, Defender of the One True Comic, Landsknecht von der Zeit.

josiahstevenson wrote:Been lurking since page three or so, through the madness and all. Almost wrote something like "NFW I'm reading eighty-seven pages" back when that was all there were.

Anyway, I like the self-reference on the middle tower. First thing that's happened (to the actual True Comic, or whatever you call it) in three days, it seems like.

The religion stuff has been interesting to watch, though, and I feel like that was/is more of the point of the Comic in the first place.

I wonder if it'll go to one Newpix per two Outside hours this next week, and then three or four hours the week after that. I'm sure there's been plenty of speculation on that point in some of the 200+ pages of this needle-pulled thing I'll never get to, though.

Surely you could get through the full 239 NewPages of the One True needle-pulled thing, if you were truly devoted enough.

Most of it was at least moderately amusing... though I think much of that may have be-did lost in the madness, somewhere.

I could, if I were truly devoted enough. I probably have read twenty or thirty of the pages, scattered throughout the thread. Quite amusing. Maybe I'll come back and read it all when my comps are over in June.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

ubscdt wrote:since it was my first post, it was well-buried before being approved by a moderator -- & since this is only my second post, i can't link to it or quote properly.

but!

i repeat it here for a chance of being seen.

> bigcrag92 wrote:>> not at all. we have two cardinals. if someone creates a user account with ubscdt then they will be automatically be a cardinal. its an incentive to encourage lurkers to register...

> i've always wanted to be a religious figure.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. I presume that we should be nominating you for Cardinal?

Though I'm not entirely sure exactly how that process works... doesn't a Cardinal need to do that? (As an aside, would I qualify for Cardinalhood? Is that even something I really want?)

bigcrag92 said that ubscdt would automatically become a cardinal, but doesn't that need Papal confirmation?

This is what I was remembering, just slightly incorrectly.

Where is Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer Helper when you need him?

josiahstevenson wrote:Been lurking since page three or so, through the madness and all. Almost wrote something like "NFW I'm reading eighty-seven pages" back when that was all there were.

Anyway, I like the self-reference on the middle tower. First thing that's happened (to the actual True Comic, or whatever you call it) in three days, it seems like.

The religion stuff has been interesting to watch, though, and I feel like that was/is more of the point of the Comic in the first place.

I wonder if it'll go to one Newpix per two Outside hours this next week, and then three or four hours the week after that. I'm sure there's been plenty of speculation on that point in some of the 200+ pages of this needle-pulled thing I'll never get to, though.

Surely you could get through the full 239 NewPages of the One True needle-pulled thing, if you were truly devoted enough.

Most of it was at least moderately amusing... though I think much of that may have be-did lost in the madness, somewhere.

I could, if I were truly devoted enough. I probably have read twenty or thirty of the pages, scattered throughout the thread. Quite amusing. Maybe I'll come back and read it all when my comps are over in June.

I am caught up from about 196 onwards. I think in the future I might read from the beginning to where I started.

Sir Tristram, Guardian of the Time Cats, Defender of the One True Comic, Landsknecht von der Zeit.

I'm pretty sure I've seen that one before, and certainly heard the sentiment. But it's oh-so-much-more poignant now.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

htom wrote:Maybe Megan's been off making tiny flags, and Cueball and Megan dolls.

And a forum and versions of us with tiny squeaky voices

But would the miniaturized version of the forum still have a 240-page topic devoted to Time? Or does the thread length get shrunk too? Or merely the fontsize/voice strength? Oh, the questions...

If you think that's bad, consider that the forum will also contain multiple copies of The Comic. Matryoshka limit, indeed!

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

Hang on a minute. The historical record as revealed by the One True Thread clearly shows that His (or her) (arse-)holiness Pope Helper the zeroth appointed you Apostolic Vistitator and owing to papal infallibility this must stand. I beseech you to change your sig accordingly, lest you be burned as a heretic.[Edit: pronouns][Edit2: I used the Outsider unit "minute". I meant "Hang on a centilongpix" (roughly speaking). Mea maxima culpa.]

Simon says "Apostolic Visitator" is the correct title.

Now, is there any more popish-business I need to tend to?

NoEdge wrote:Outside? Is that like Mesopotamia? Isn't Mesopotamia gone? Has Outside been destroyed without our noticing?!Oh well. At least we still have our sandcastle.

NoEdge wrote:Maybe it's fire. The world is burning. It's dark behind me. Maybe the fires have been put out. Maybe it's all gone.